O'Reilly Open Source Convention

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( OSCON short ) is one of the most visited conferences for developers of open source software. It is organized by O'Reilly and is held annually on five consecutive days in late July in Portland, Oregon.

History

The OSCON was originally founded by Tim O'Reilly as The Perl Conference ( TPC) to offer a direct encounter and intellectual exchange on a large scale Perl developers, while introducing them to the publications of his publishing house. It was held in San Diego in 1997 and two years later was part of a larger conference, which generally has open source software on the topic. In 2003 the conference moved to Portland and in 2005 and 2006, a sister conference called EuroOSCON took place in late September in Amsterdam and Brussels.

Lectures

The lectures focus mainly on the environment of the operating system Linux, the languages ​​PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, databases like MySQL, Web applications, and application programs. Most presenters are the leaders of the projects or leading figures in their field. It can accommodate up to five lectures in parallel rather than in so-called tracks or channels.